How To Become A Blogger Step 4: How To Install WordPress On Your Website

How to install wordpress to your website using the 5 minute wordpress install process.

What tools you will need to install wordpress?

1. The latest downloaded version of the wordpress installation files at www.wordpress.org

2. An FTP program used to upload files from your computer onto your web hosting server.

3. A basic text editing program like wordpad or notepad

What are the exact steps needed for the 5 minutes wordpress install process?

1. Download and unzip the wordpress files onto your computer

Go to www.wordpress.org

Click “download wordpress”

Find file and “unzip” it to a new folder

2. Create a database on your server

Log in to the “cpanel” of your website

To access your cpanel either go to www.YourDomain.com/cpanel or go to www.cpanel.YourDomain.com

*You will need to enter your user name and password that is the same as your account with the web hosting company.

Now that you have successfully logged into the cpanel for the first time you are ready to create a database on your server that wordpress will use to store information.

Scroll down to the “Databases” tab

Click on the “MySQL Databases” button

Enter the name of your new database into the field and click “Create Database”. Ideally the name of your database should reflect the name of your website to avoid confusion later on if you choose to have several other websites.

3. Create a database user name on your server

After you have successfully created the database on your server you need to add a user to that database.

Return to the cpanel front page, and scroll back down to the “Databases” tab.

Instead this time click on the “MySQL Users” then click on the “Add New User” button.

Create a username and password then click on “Create User”

Click “go back”

Now that you have created a user, you still have to add this new user to your database.

Scroll down to the bottom of the “MySQL Users” page to where it says “Add User to Database”

Select your newly created user and database in the fields, then click “Add”. On the next page you will be asked which privileges to give this new user. For this user you want to choose “All Privileges” because you will be the one using this login.

4. Rename the “wp-config-sample.php” file to “wp-config.php”

Return to the folder where you unzipped the wordpress installation files in step 1.

Find the file named “wp-config-sample.php” and rename the file to “wp-config.php“.

5. Modify the details inside the wp-config.php file

Open the “wp-config.php” file using a text editor like wordpad.

Find the section that looks something like this

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere‘);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere‘);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Replace the “putyourdbnamehere” with the name of your created database.

Replace “usernamehere” with the username you just created in the cpanel.

Replace “yourpasswordhere” with the password you created in the cpanel.

Save the changes to the document.

And get ready to upload the files onto your server.

(If you need help with this part you should stop here and continue after watching the next video)

6. Upload the wordpress files onto your server

Open up the FileZilla program and login to your server.

Open the folder called “public_html” on the right side window (server side).

On the left side (your computer) open up the folder where the wordpress installation files were unzipped.

Select the entire contents of the wordpress installation folder.

Right click, then select “upload”.

*The wordpress files are now being uploaded to your server

7. Run the wordpress installation script

Now that the wordpress installation files have been uploaded to your server all you have to do is return to your website using a web browser and run the script.

For newer versions of wordpress all you have to do is visit the homepage and wordpress will prompt you to install it.

Go to “www.YourDomain.com”

For older versions you may have to type “www.YourDomain.com/wp-admin/install.php”

To finish installing wordpress all you have to do is fill out the Blog Title and your email address and click “install wordpress”

Once the installation is complete you will receive a username and a randomly generated password.

(Don’t lose these because you will use them on the next screen.)

Click “login” and all you have to do is enter the username and password that was just given to you and then you have finished installing wordpress to your website.

Congratulation! You have now successfully purchased a domain name, set up web hosting, and installed your very first website.

Your website should now be up and running and visible to the world.

To access your WordPress admin area you need to type “www.YourDomain.com/wp-admin” and then login.